Anticipation and the surprises of everyday life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3082011
AutoresGiovanni Gasparini (Catholic University of Milan and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen43
Número3
Páginas339-348
Fecha de publicación2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0539018404045433
OpenAlexW2045254050
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas1

Anticipation calls into question the status of the future with respect to the past, which has become particularly problematic and complex in the "risk society", where risk is now omnipresent, notably in everyday life: for example, the areas of food, health and urban security and safety. The author takes the recently launched idea of interstices of everyday life (IEL), which alludes to "in-between" situations as well as to experiences that are apparently overlooked but which have a bearing on emerging values and revive the center/periphery relationship: for example, waiting/expectation, breaks, silence, games, gifts. In this context, surprise is seen as an interstitial phenomenon: looking at the notion from the standpoint of the unpleasant or bad surprises of everyday life leads the author to examine the place assigned to it in the planning of activities in today's time-oriented cultures. On this basis, the author advances some observations on certain trends and deadlocks of our social systems. One major example discussed is the tragedy of 11 September 2001

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Phenomenon · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Surprise · Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sustainable Urban and Rural Development